Homeland Terror by Don Pendleton

Author:Don Pendleton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Worldwide Library
Published: 2013-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Washington, D.C.

Gregory Walden stepped out of the Hart Senate office building and yawned as he squinted against the glare of the rising sun. He’d been up all night, working alongside Huell Kostigan as they monitored developments in the CIA bombing incident and other related news involving the American Freedom Movement. It had been an exhausting vigil, but Walden knew the time had been well-spent, as it had allowed him a chance to help mold what he hoped would become Washington’s official response to the situation.

Walden had convinced the Intelligence Committee chairman that both the gun-show heist and Langley bombing had been masterminded by the three Byrnes brothers, and that during the subsequent raid on the AFM compound in Meredith Valley, Lance Iovine had most likely been slain by a colleague of the brothers as part of some internal power struggle. As for the AFM Web site posting in which Iovine had supposedly alleged an FBI conspiracy, Walden dismissed the claim as typical militia paranoia. There were also reports that a man and woman had escaped from the compound following the raid, but Walden had seen to it that Joan VanderMeer and Marcus Yarborough were left off the list of suspects.

At one point, while Kostigan retreated for a catnap in his private office, Walden had made two quick calls on one of the prepaid cell phones he’d picked up on the way to the capital. The first call was to VanderMeer, who told him that she and Yarborough had split up shortly after fleeing the safehouse located across the mountain from the AFM camp. She was heading back to Washington while Yarborough had taken another car west to carry out his next assassination.

Walden’s second call was to Phyllis Dahlgren, a line producer for the nationally televised show A.M. America. The senator had a long-standing rapport with the woman and had leaked exclusive information to her many times in the past, so she wasn’t surprised when he gave her some insider details on the CIA bombing. In exchange, he asked for a chance to appear on the show later in the morning to present the government’s position, preferably as part of a panel discussion that would include a spokesperson for the militia movement.

“We want to deal with this head-on and grab the bull by the horns,” he’d said.

Dahlgren had not only risen to the bait but she’d also—as Walden had been expecting—suggested that Jack Foster Stanton speak on behalf of the militias. Walden pretended to have reservations, forcing the producer to badger him before he finally relented, on the condition that Stanton come to Washington so they could debate matters face-to-face on the air. Again Dahlgren unwittingly played into Walden’s hands, promising to roust Stanton from bed and have him chauffeured to Washington from his home in Camden, New Jersey. Walden was still waiting to hear if Benjamin Zernial had managed to break into Stanton’s house after the man had been picked up.

An A.M. America remote crew was due at the office complex in a few minutes.

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